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   "standing_position": "<cite index=\"42-1,42-2,42-4\">Lithuania's national implementing act for MiCA is the Lietuvos Respublikos kriptoturto rinkų įstatymas Nr. XIV-2879, officially published in the Teisės aktų registras on 24 July 2024</cite>. <cite index=\"4-3\">The Bank of Lithuania is confirmed as the designated competent authority for Lithuania under MiCA</cite>. <cite index=\"5-1,5-2\">The EU-wide Article 143(3) MiCA transitional (grandfathering) period officially expired across the EU on 1 July 2026, after which any entity providing crypto-asset services to EU clients without a MiCA licence is in breach of EU law and must cease</cite>. Lithuania's specific grandfathering duration relative to the EU default 18-month maximum was not independently re-verified against the ESMA grandfathering list in this pass.",
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   "standing_position": "<cite index=\"49-3,49-4,49-5\">MiCA (Regulation (EU) 2023/1114) sets uniform EU-wide requirements distinguishing crypto-assets other than asset-referenced tokens (ARTs) and e-money tokens (EMTs), ARTs, and EMTs, along with requirements applicable to crypto-asset service providers</cite>, directly applicable in Lithuania. Lithuania-domiciled entities supervised by the Bank of Lithuania have issued e-money tokens under this framework, including tokens branded BLUEUR and EURW/AMBR EURO.",
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   "standing_position": "MiCA does not directly regulate crypto-asset lending/borrowing, staking-as-a-service, or fully decentralised on-chain activity absent an identifiable intermediary; <cite index=\"8-1,8-3\">MiCA does not address the lending and borrowing of crypto-assets per Recital 94</cite>, though CASPs offering such adjacent services remain bound by MiCA's general conduct obligations. No Lithuania-specific supplementary guidance on staking, DeFi, mining, or validator activity was located in this pass.",
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   "standing_position": "MiCA Titles III and IV apply directly to ART and EMT issuance in Lithuania. <cite index=\"71-14\">The EBA is the main EU authority for issuers of ARTs and EMTs, while ESMA/national competent authorities (Bank of Lithuania for LT) are the main authority for CASP regulation and supervision</cite>. Lithuanian-supervised entities have issued EMTs under Bank of Lithuania oversight (e.g., BLUEUR, EURW/AMBR EURO).",
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   "standing_position": "MiCA imposes EU-wide conduct-of-business obligations on CASPs (honesty/fairness, fair and non-misleading marketing, fee/pricing disclosure, complaints handling, custody safeguards) directly applicable to Bank of Lithuania-supervised firms. The Bank of Lithuania also has a history of issuing direct public warnings against unlicensed crypto activity, including against Binance in 2021.",
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   "standing_position": "The clearest binding EU-level instrument identified is Council Directive (EU) 2023/2226 (DAC8), extending EU tax administrative cooperation and reporting obligations to crypto-asset service providers, requiring Member State transposition. <cite index=\"56-1\">DAC8 requires crypto-asset service providers to comply with detailed reporting and due-diligence obligations set out in its Annex VI, with national authorities automatically sharing service-provider-reported information with EU counterparts within nine months of year-end, with first exchanges from 2026</cite>. A Lithuania-specific primary-source confirmation of personal income tax (GPM) or VAT treatment of individual crypto gains/disposals was not located in this pass.",
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   "code": "cross_border_transfer",
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   "standing_position": "MiCA-authorised CASPs benefit from EU passporting once fully licensed by the Bank of Lithuania, whereas grandfathered/transitional entities do not. Reverse solicitation from third-country CASPs into Lithuania is strictly limited under MiCA, and EU travel-rule information requirements apply alongside MiCA to Lithuania-established CASPs.",
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